Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Attorney General's request to testify, Pat McCarran haughtily replied: the committee wished to reach its conclusions on the facts-"unswayed by emotional arguments...
...they could no longer protect us - that we could stay behind if we wished, or we could volunteer to go with them. No one volunteered. Then we faced the difficult problem of establishing contact with the American soldiers. We had to go down through the jungle and try to reach them without getting shot. Father Hagen selected three missionaries who accompanied him through the jungle toward the beach, where they saw the first Americans advancing with machine guns...
...made under the direction of brilliant, free-lance New Zealander Len Lye (Kill or Be Killed, Colour Box), which make up the bulk of the film. Lye's Dublin streets, obsessed faces and magical landscapes (made largely in bleak Galway) capture depths of mysticism which are beyond the reach of most words...
Even mightier than the 8-in. gun, though with a shorter reach (14.3 miles), is the 240-mm. howitzer. These behemoths are used in groups for long-range destruction. They are also used to back up the lighter fire power of infantry division artillery. Their backing is a wallop. The 240-mm. howitzer lobs a projectile weighing...
...pack howitzer is the principal 75-mm. weapon. *Broken down, it is moved on the backs of mules. It is also the organic weapon for paratroop field artillery units. Dropped in seven loads, the 75-mm. can reach action seven minutes after crew and parts leave the plane...